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SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Fri Feb 01, 2013 1:41 pm

hibidy wrote:more crap I'll never own (and don't deserve anyways......)

Ooohhhhh ooohhhhhhhh omg omg omg omgggggggggggggggggggggg...

Was it good for you too?

rockstar_not · Post by **rockstar_not** » Fri Feb 01, 2013 2:40 pm

Pix were asked for....

Sweetwater had these pix and sent them to me as soon as I bought. Stored away for insurance purposes (there's one with the serial number as well - didn't post that one).

Still has the clear plastic pup cover doodads on them. (they are now long gone!)

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Fri Feb 01, 2013 3:06 pm

rockstar_not wrote:Pix were asked for....

Sweetwater had these pix and sent them to me as soon as I bought. Stored away for insurance purposes (there's one with the serial number as well - didn't post that one).

Still has the clear plastic pup cover doodads on them. (they are now long gone!)

That's a pretty nice looking axe! I imagine it's pretty versatile, too..

First guitar I've seen with a slanted humbucker!

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Fri Feb 01, 2013 3:14 pm

I just saw this on Sweetwater:

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ETBBEBGH/

Looks like it'd be good for solo blues...

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Fri Feb 01, 2013 5:19 pm

rockstar_not wrote:Pix were asked for....

Sweetwater had these pix and sent them to me as soon as I bought. Stored away for insurance purposes (there's one with the serial number as well - didn't post that one).

Still has the clear plastic pup cover doodads on them. (they are now long gone!)

looks sweet, does it weigh a ton like a Les Paul?

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Fri Feb 01, 2013 5:24 pm

woolyloach wrote:First guitar I've seen with a slanted humbucker!

Seymour Duncan has replacement slanted humbuckers:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/new-p ... nt-pickup/

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Fri Feb 01, 2013 5:57 pm

Uncle E wrote:
woolyloach wrote:First guitar I've seen with a slanted humbucker!
Seymour Duncan has replacement slanted humbuckers:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/new-p ... nt-pickup/

Well, I'll be damned!

I'm tempted to get one of those Nighthawks, very affordable and flexible. I'd have the Strat rejiggered with all single-coils by a tech if I did that, I think...

Dunno, too many options, not enough money or talent..

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:48 pm

hibidy wrote:

Beautiful! That would look cool with an Evertune bridge in it.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Fri Feb 01, 2013 9:06 pm

Uncle E wrote:
hibidy wrote:
Beautiful! That would look cool with an Evertune bridge in it.

I like that bridge. These are those overseas "you'll never ever ever EVER get one and prolly couldn't afford it anyways" guitars. I posted the caparison a while back and that is really a pipe-dream as well. About 3k and there is no way to play it first. I really want one though.

rockstar_not · Post by **rockstar_not** » Sat Feb 02, 2013 1:59 am

Hink wrote:
rockstar_not wrote:Pix were asked for....

Sweetwater had these pix and sent them to me as soon as I bought. Stored away for insurance purposes (there's one with the serial number as well - didn't post that one).

Still has the clear plastic pup cover doodads on them. (they are now long gone!)
looks sweet, does it weigh a ton like a Les Paul?

6 lbs. 14 oz, so just a shade under 7 lbs. Compared to a Les Paul weighing in at 9 lbs plus - this is a lightweight. The only ergonomic issue is playing while sitting - the waist is so small I have to crouch over the guitar. I'll probably be using a pillow on my leg to rest it on.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sat Feb 02, 2013 2:32 am

rockstar_not wrote:
Hink wrote:
rockstar_not wrote:Pix were asked for....

Sweetwater had these pix and sent them to me as soon as I bought. Stored away for insurance purposes (there's one with the serial number as well - didn't post that one).

Still has the clear plastic pup cover doodads on them. (they are now long gone!)
looks sweet, does it weigh a ton like a Les Paul?
6 lbs. 14 oz, so just a shade under 7 lbs. Compared to a Les Paul weighing in at 9 lbs plus - this is a lightweight. The only ergonomic issue is playing while sitting - the waist is so small I have to crouch over the guitar. I'll probably be using a pillow on my leg to rest it on.

That good even be better for me, I'm not tall. That is light, FWIW my baritone (as it has been since I built it with the tele body) weighs in at 10.5 lbs (I nicknamed it my sledgehammer). I do like how this guitar looks, something to keep my eye and ear on.

Meanwhile I'm sitting here ready to pull the trigger on my bari body, but Scott I have given a lot of thought to your point. Obviously when it comes to talking about the type of acoustics we're talking here I cant hold a candle to your knowledge given your line of work. With that said I still think you may be over thinking the placement of baritone's pups in relation to the longer scale length. As I have been using the body builder at Warmoth trying out different ideas (gibson made them stop making any gibson type bodies, not even a V

), for the last few days I stumbled many times on them asking if I wanted the bridge pick up moved south to make room for a 24 fret neck (not an issue with the baritone neck, though it is 24 fret it still fits in the pocket like a regular tele neck). Also I have done some research, there are a lot of opinions on this, some suggesting they should be at harmonic nodes but most agreeing there is no set rule.

So I'm inclined to accept that the z body will be close to the same dimensions as it is with the tele body (I know how that sounds), but I'm really on the fence about one thought. Perhaps you, Eric, Dean and everyone else might help sway my decision some. (I can order it now or whenever, I can wait an extra day or two to see what others think). As you know this is the body I want in alder (alder for it's balanced tone)

I just bought a Duncan JB Jr. from wooly (single coil size HB), my bari already has the p-rails...do I keep it with just the p-rails or do I hunt for more tones by putting the JB Jr between the p-rails? (with a 5 way of course and an on/on/on toggle for parallel/split/series) There is no extra charge for this, I'll still pay the same either way. If I do this it would mean not making this bari stereo though (no I'm, not going to have three outs

)...what do people think?

I'm also on the fence about finish but I'll keep that to myself, I'll just say it wont be a solid color.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sat Feb 02, 2013 2:57 am

or??? I could have the p-rails in the bridge and middle while putting the JB Jr in the neck

The Telenator · Post by **The Telenator** » Sat Feb 02, 2013 3:56 am

That bass here looks Japan -- at least that is where the better Ibanez come from; however, their cheap models are now China, too, but the guitars right here too are very China I think (don't know the blue-ish pointy thing with the veneer, but the mention said overseas). That's how you can get an Epi version of the Nighhawk and not pay $2k. Epi is China for 99% of the guitars. Unlike a USA Les Paul, where the maple top is rather thick, the curly on an Epi is as thin as modern woodwork can slice it, like paper that is. BTW, I played a Nighthawk back when they were only Gibson, and those guitars are rather neck heavy due to the small and hollowed body. Very good for blues indeed.

Anyhow, interesting to think that Chinese political prisoners made your axe, huh? They do pay most of them, though, about $1.50 a day. Right in the same factory, one wing makes an awesome selection of bootlegs -- usually various copies of Les Paul Standards, some very vintage old Strats, etc. You have to go to, like, Thailand for a vacation to buy one, then work out the dodgy shipping to places unknown to finally have it arrive in the EU, UK or States. Not worth getting arrested for, if you ask me, but the bootlegs are incredible copies. A lot of people can not tell them from real.

I've tried numerous Epi's, and once in a blue moon I find one that plays about as well as a good Gibson, but I think a good 75% are dogs. Tend to have fattish, clunky necks and the pickups are mostly no good at all -- very muddy and indistinct. The trick is, if you are a broke youth needing a guitar you can actually gig with -- you buy the Epi version at $5 to $7 hundred USD after trying about 50 or as many as you can find to play, then put decent pickups in there, a pro setup by a trusted tech if you cannot pull that off yourself, and voila! Pseudo Gibby! The one exception to all I said re Epi is the Bonamassa Epi version of the Les Paul that Gibson builds for him. Doesn't need really anything switched out.

Wooly, I like your dozens of smilie guys. Gee, they are so very clever. You said the bass needs work? Know how they fix a bass neck like that that is badly out as I suspect? Lay it on its belly, put heat lamps above, warm the neck for, say, a half hour, then the tech places neck supports on either far end, bass still face down, then he will rudely push down on it several times with all upper body weight. Not to be watched by the feignt-hearted bassist owner, a rude but very effective and speedy fix (and then tighten nut on now rather loose truss rod. (Don't try this at home.)

Ah, forgot already. I actually stopped by the thread because of the title question: My next guitar will be another primo softsynth. Which one? No interest: Sylenth, SynthMaster.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sat Feb 02, 2013 4:12 am

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Sat Feb 02, 2013 5:24 pm

Screw it! I'm not ging to buy a new guitar until I hit the wall with what I have!

I'm going to have a tech replace all the electronics in the RG a bit at a time.. I love the neck and the way the body feels, so there! A little p1mpage won't hurt. The Strat will slowly get all new pickups as well, and the bass will go in for a setup job in March. I'll get over my hatred of floating trems, at least for now.

To hell with all this faffing about! I just want to PPPLLLAAAYYYY!!!

Your next guitar?